Saving Private Ryan Driving Miss Daisy Raising Arizona Blazing Saddles Towering Inferno Raging Bull Coming Home Killing Fields Working Girl Crying Game Crouching Tiger... Chasing Amy Boxing Helena Eating Raoul Breaking Away Falling Down Being John Malkovitch
and many more... sheesh!-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001 Or take it the other way and require a gerund phrase for a title:
Playing Rollerball
Dancing With Wolves
Sinking Titanic
Pearling the Harbor
Shreking
Surviving Apocolypse Now
Going With the Wind-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001 Starring Wars-- centauri, May 29 2001 Ep 1: The Menacing Phantom Fighting Club Clerking Entering the Dragon ...?-- MrWrong, May 29 2001 Dirtying Harry Trafficking Erring Brockovitch Thinning the Red Line Hunting Good Will-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001 Playing Child Backing To The Future Blobbing Attacking The Killer Tomatoes Acing Ventura Broadcasting News Networking Corning Of The Children Giggling Doctor Hunting Deer Exorcising Godfathering Flashdancing Flatlining Ghosting Graduating Rocking The Cradle With Your Hand Screaming Losing The World Knowing What You Did Last Summer Moonraking Acting Sister Raging Silent Entering The Dragon Speeding Suspecting Throwing Momma From The Train Coming Back Again Sometimes-- thumbwax, May 29 2001 Actually, I always assumed that the 'Blazing' in 'Blazing Saddles' was adjectival.-- gravelpit, May 29 2001 terminating the two,judging the day
returning the jedi,to the video shop[my brothers joke]-- technobadger, May 29 2001 OK verbals in general then.
Present participles included: (Raging Bull, Killing Fields, Crying Game, Crouching Tiger, etc)
(cf gravelpit's correct annotation)-- globaltourniquet, May 29 2001 max being mad-- technobadger, May 29 2001 landing the high-- technobadger, May 29 2001 King Kong-- beauxeault, May 29 2001 this is one of one of my pet peeves, movie titles (also titles of any other conceptual thing: raves, clubs, other events, fine art works, books, et cetera) that are actions being performed. towering inferno, the crying game, working girl, and crouching tiger hidden dragon, don't fit in this category, because the words in them that look like verbs are actually adjectives that serve to modify the nouns in the titles. so i say there is nothing wrong with that. but the action titles really need to end.-- dj_photon, Oct 19 2001 Some would have been liking it hotRearing window ... Rear winding ... Rear windowing ...-- hippo, Oct 19 2001 Lording It Over The Flies Malting The Falcon Tora! Tora! Boring! (that one's wrong, but what with Tora Bora and all....)-- kai_g, Dec 16 2001 Looks like I need to learn how to startnew-lines here. Let me see if this worked.-- kai_g, Dec 16 2001 That'd be "new-linING", kai-- bristolz, Dec 16 2001 This is a rant, not an idea. I do agree though...-- snarfyguy, Dec 16 2001 random, halfbakery